Comments on: How to Compress Files Faster with Pigz Tool in Linux

By: deleatur

deleatur — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 06:24:21 +0000

Great article!

My question is:

Is it possible to generate multivolume files with pigz? (so far I failed to find a way).

Thanks

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:19:37 +0000

In reply to oejhaj. @Oejhal, After compressing a directory, it becomes a file, so you can use the same following command to decompress a file or directory using pigz, use the -d option, or the unpigz command.

$ pigz -d ubuntu-20.04-beta-desktop-amd64.iso
OR
$ unpigz dir1.tar.gz

By: oejhaj

oejhaj — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 05:09:22 +0000

Teaches how to compress a directory but not decompress it…

By: Etescartz

Etescartz — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:43:51 +0000

Since you wrote about ZSTD I’ve never looked back. Speed and compression like no other.

https://www.tecmint.com/zstd-fast-data-compression-algorithm-used-by-facebook/

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:28:38 +0000

In reply to Jeff H Silverman. Try alias gzip="pigz". The alias works but isn't it confusing? What happens when actually you want to use 'GZip'?